Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after having a seizure in his summer home in Maine. A statement released by Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg stated that Justice Roberts took a minor fall from the seizure, and has been transported to the Penobscot Bay Medical Center.

Washington -

Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after having a seizure in his summer home in Maine. A statement released by Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg stated that Justice Roberts took a minor fall from the seizure, and has been transported to the Penobscot Bay Medical Center.

Washington -  The chief justice of the top US court was hospitalized Monday after suffering a seizure at his vacation home.

John Roberts, who heads the US Supreme Court in Washington, was to remain in a hospital in the state of Maine overnight after experiencing a seizure and falling near his summer home, a court statement said.

The statement said Roberts, 52, had “fully recovered” from what doctors called a benign idiopathic seizure. He had also suffered from a seizure in 1993.

The conservative justice was nominated by President George W Bush to lead the nine-member court.